Stephen Sackur of BBC’s “HARDtalk” appeared absurd this week when he challenged Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who led reporting on the NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden, on minutiae irrelevant to the historic revelations that British and American governments secretly spy on and violate the privacy of untold numbers of people around the world.

— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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